Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, April 21, 2005 5:16 pm, Richard Fish said: > Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > >>Yes, that's exactly what I though about as i was browsing that page. This >>could be solved so much easier with a simple invoice that's lost >> somewhere >>in my room (pe

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Richard Fish
Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: >Yes, that's exactly what I though about as i was browsing that page. This >could be solved so much easier with a simple invoice that's lost somewhere >in my room (perhaps). > > For the processor, to check the FSB, look in the BIOS. If you see "Ext. Clock" reported as

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, April 21, 2005 2:27 pm, Willie Wong said: > Okay, I am not exactly sure about how to go about finding out whether > the CPU is really ht capable... some help? > > One thing that I can think of off the top of my head is that for the > Socket 47

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:40:50AM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > OK, i'll take a look closer at my proc, but i can't really think of a good > way of finding out _exactly_ what it is... > > So then what is the 'ht' flag? > > here's the output of lshw regarding the proc, maybe it will mean more

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, April 21, 2005 1:04 am, Willie Wong said: > no. On my P4 2Ghz box: > > [12:32 AM]wwong ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 2 > model name : Intel(R) Penti

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The system is about a year and a bit old. > > The motherboard is new though, I just bought it a few days ago. I updated > to the latest version of the bios for the motherboa

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 20, 2005 10:47 pm, Willie Wong said: > How old is the system? I use an intel board and some of the older > boards came with chips that is HT-capable but doesn't have the BIOS > option to turn it on. Updating the BIOS version helped with

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:37:19PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > On Wed, April 20, 2005 8:29 pm, Roy O. Wright said: > > On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke > > around there... > > > > HTH, > > Roy > > > That's what I expected too, but there's no option and/or j

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 20, 2005 8:29 pm, Roy O. Wright said: > On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke > around there... > > HTH, > Roy That's what I expected too, but there's no option and/or jumper. Thanks tho! - -Cos - -- GPG

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Roy O. Wright
On my GigaByte MB, HT is enabled via BIOS. You might want to poke around there... HTH, Roy Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: 2 things I noticed: 1. CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled (why? how do you enable HT?) 2. ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (20 C) (even from here it's always reporting 20 - aka 68F) Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, April 20, 2005 4:32 pm, Richard Fish said: > Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > >>1. The motherboard, as well as the P4 processor are HT capable. I have >>configured SMP and HT capabilities in the kernel, yet I do not have HT. >>Why? >> >> > > Post yo

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: >1. The motherboard, as well as the P4 processor are HT capable. I have >configured SMP and HT capabilities in the kernel, yet I do not have HT. >Why? > > Post your dmesg output from immediately after booting, it will probably tell us what the problem is. Hopefully som

[gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I just purchased a new motherboard, an Abit AI7. The specs look really good, I've read about the 'wonders' it can do with sensors that have little to no support in Linux, and with a couple of exceptions it works fine. Perhaps someone else h